Kippen Lodge

Probably Andrew Heiton Junior, circa 1875, altered. Well-detailed 2-storey, 2-bay baronial lodge with conical-roofed circular stair tower and low flat-roofed, crenelated wing converted from courtyard, situated at main entrance to Kippen House (see separate listing). Bull-faced squared and coursed rubble with contrasting ashlar dressings. Deep base course forming raked cill course, dividing string course and eaves course to tower. Ogee-arched door with quatrefoil detail at doorhead, corbels, stone transoms and mullions and raked cills.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: principal elevation to E with broad gabled bay at left comprising 8-light canted transomed window below bipartite and set back stair tower at right with boarded timber door and small stair window. N elevation has corbelled square-section gutter at base of dormerheaded windows and W elevation has jerkinhead roof.

Plate glass glazing in timber sash and case windows to canted W window, replacement non-traditional windows elsewhere. Grey slates with banded fishscale pattern to tower. Shouldered ashlar ridge stack with can dividers. Deeply overhanging eaves with decorative bargeboarding and cast iron finials.

INTERIOR: altered but retains boarded timber dado to circular staircase.